Window of Opportunity, 1999

"Situation trouvée", Washington Heights N.Y., an 8 minute-long video film of a person telephoning in a corridor being watched secretly by a so-called spy through a doorway into an apartment.

I find the clash between the private and the public, between private and business life and the obvious reference in the video film to the invisible extremely strong: The observer in his hiding place, the person on the other end of the line - somewhere out there - the charged, claustrophobic, aggressive situation, the feeling of voyeurism, the breaking of boundaries and rules of observation from the perspective of a hiding place.

The switch of the line of vision of the observer, who now stares from the open room into the screen and via the hidden observer into the scene beyond …


   
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